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-' Can there be such a thing as too much
'rain in Nebraska?
' For some reason or other, the Peter
JCooper club has not yet ratified.
Notwithstanding a late tax levy and 1
heavy rains. City Treasurer Hennlngs I
Jus scooped in his golden harvest I
King Edward should try to tlmo his
Illness hereafter . to cause less Incon
venience and loss to-both himself and
ubjects. : .- . V
Perhaps ; Henry Wa$erson feels ag
grieved, too, because he did not get a
Registered letter Invitation to the Tllden
dub jubilee: Jf, -.-'
, '. Ia . tie meantime, Cuba may rejoice
that It has Its Independence which but
for American assistance would still be j
vision of the future.'
The last curtain Is down on the Trans
missleslppl exposition, but the picture of
the exposition. will never fade from the
, memory of anyone7 who shared Its I
glories.
t ; Hereafter- aspirants for the United
States senate will have to pass i civil
service examination as pugilists. South
Carolina and Texas iave set the ball
a-rolltng.- j
. The loss of .congress will. not make the
fertlle-mlnded .Washington correspond
ent despair. He will continue to build
and rebuild cablneta during recess at the
same old stand, t, . ... v . .
A ..." 1 ' -? '
Don't underestimate the recuperative
power of crops grown but of Nebraska
and Iowa soil. ' With Old Sol's help, It
will not take long to make up1 for time
lost by the cool spell. J- '. , :
, Porto Rico seems to agree with United
States) Collector ftriizan an well that ka
is willing to live therw the remainder of
hls'days, always providing , his salary
of 11,500 a year is not euj down. ' -Prise
'rjng contests in the congres-
ionar class will be deferred until the
aeries Is resumed after the two houses
reopen next winter. In the interval,
the seryiees of the official trainer prom
ise, to, be Jn great and steady demand.'
Two sheriffs have Just been killed in
battle'wtth horse thieves in Oklahoma.
Presumably this is f Intended ' as rein
forcement of the plea for statehood for
Oklahoma, on the ground that Its people
are'. fully .competent to take -care of
themselves. .
, The anthracite "coal miners' strike has
'so far been ver profitable to the coal
barons, whohave managed to unload
their surplus of coal at an Increase
from 20 to 30 per cent on ordinary sum
mer rates. When the strike Is over
they wlllJceep up these rates, under pre
tense that coal la scarce and the de
mand r,u.ns high.
Our democratic friends are cot so
Inquisitive about events In the Philip
pines since Admiral Dewey satiated their
curiosity by telling them a .few things
they did not waut to know. These con
gressional inquisitions set off by the
democrats' have a peculiar, way of -kicking
back to the discomfiture of those
bent on making political capital put of
them, .
No one has yet been able to explain
why, railroad property la worth less in
Nsbraska'for taxation purposes in the
year 1902 than it was one 'year ago.
,In lftOi- the average assessment of rail
roads In Nebraska was $4,670 per mile;
In 1002 l Is only $1,061 per mile, or $18
a mile less than It was last year, in spits
pf the fact that millions of dollar -have I
been spent within the last year for nf y
rcUlag stock and improvement!
THE record vr COfiQHtSa,
While the first session of the Fifty-
seventh congress did not do tome of the
thing expected of It there wan enacted
legislation of very great Importance, a
part of which will make the session
memorable. This Is to be said of the
passage of the Irrigation bill and the
isthmian canal bill, measures whose ef
fect will be to Increase greatly the na
tional wealth and augment our com
mercial power. The carrying out of
these great enterprises will for several
years require a large expenditure, but
that the ultimate returns will vastly
overbalance the outlay Is certain. The
reclamation of the arid lands means a
large addition to our agricultural pro
duction and this will not be made faster
than there is a demand for it Eastern
opposition to the opening up of these
lands was due to a fear that the agri
cultural producers of that section would
be Injured by the added competition, but
there Is no substantial reason for such
apprehension. Reclamation of the arid
lands will be "a work of years and in
the meantime both the home and for
eign .demand for agricultural products
will grow.
The rhlllpptne civil government bill Is
also a measure of Importance, which
there is every reason to believe will have
a most beneficial effect upon conditions
In the archipelago. It must convince
the natives of the purpose of this gov
ernment to treat them fairly and Justly,
giving them such participation in the
government of the Islands as circum
stances warrant, gradually enlarging It
toward complete self-government as the
people grotf In -capacity for governing
themselves? .The creation of a perma
nent census bureau Is another piece of
legislation that will undoubtedly prove
valuable. . -. . V, k
The question of granting tariff con
cessions to Cuba commanded more at
tention than anyothcr . and the failure.
of the reciprocity propositions ooes not
nooKBflrilv menn that the auestlon has
. . . .
Deen nnal,T 'P"e" .
may negotiate a treaty who uun aim
caH. a special session of the senate to
act upon It Of the other matters that
taWcA nr ura hnnsr no In either the sen-
'
ate or house, there fci none that cannot
safely walt.untll the next session and It
Is perhaps quite aa well that they were
deferred, with perhaps the exception of
the bill for the admission to statehood
of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma,
which wag made the unfinished business
In the senate' for December-10 next
tWa Tr,rt to have the tariff interfered
with met with little support, for the
sound reason that tariff tinkering would
unsettle and Injure business. The enr
rency propositions, also, ,were not aerl
MarH fnr a like, reajum.
VUOiJ wwoava'wa - y
In the matter of appropriations the
session was liberal, as Mr. Cannon, chair
man of the house committee on appro
priations, pointed out a few days ago,
It does not appear, however, that there
has Lbeen any great extravagance,
though of course this will be charged by
the democrats in the congressional cam-,
palgn. On the whole the record of the
first session of the' present congress la
creditable to the party In power.
' TBt K1SO COSVALKBCIAB.
The latest dispatches appear to fully
I warrant the conclusion that King Ed
ward Is now out of danger and that his
convalescence will 1 be uninterrupted,
though it must be some time before
recovery is complete. ' The' progress of
the patient has really'been remarkable,
considering his age and other condi
tions, the consensus of opinion in the
medical profession at the time of the
operation being that the chances were
very largely against the king surviving
the treatment, which it was very gen
erally thought had been .unduly de
layed. 1 .
From the medical point of view the
case is regarded as furnishing a valua
ble object lesson." The medical. Journal
of Philadelphia says that it will teach
bow little is to be gained by delay and
how great a peril is Incurred by It
"We have recognized for a long time,"
says tbat authority, "that the teaching
and practice in this country, on the sub-
i,ct of PPdlcltl were,,n dvance of
those that prevail In Britain.- The con
servatlsm there has been extreme; the
practice has verged upon timidity. The
American rule, we believe, Is the better
one and, whether the king lives or dies,
this fact will remain 'proven. ' If the
king lives it. will only be by passing
through a great peril, which in almost
all. similar cases can . be. averted by
prompt operation."
King Edward has shown great fortl
tuda in the hard . ordeal, bearing man
fully the severe suffering and obeying
Implicitly the. directions of the physi
cians. The favorable promise for his
recovery will be
universally regarded
with gratification.
.THE LAW AUD TH COAL COMBINE.
The federal anti-trust law declares 11
leeal "every contract combination In
the form of trust or otherwise, or con1
spiracy, In restraint .of trade or com
merce among the several states or with
foreign nations." . The question as to
whether this applies to the combination
of anthracite coal .railroads it is under
stood Attorney General Knox is con
sldering, by, direction .of .President
Roosevelt It is said that the pres
ident la taking a very earnest interest
in the coal strike situation, with refer
ence, of course, to the. public's concern
In the matter and the question whether
the law ia being violated by the rail
roads.
According to some of the Washington
correspondents, it la the belief of Mr.
Roosevelt that the anti-trust law is
I boing Ylqjated. ut he does not consider
himself competent to Judge whether
these violations tan ba proved in court,
or if the court can Intervene In such
manner aa to bring about definite re
suits. There la not a reasonable doubt
of the existence of a combination be
tween the anthracite railroad. - They
ara acting In concert against the' strik
lng miners. Doea this result ia restraint
$t trade er commerce among the several
states, as contemplated In the federal
statute? This Is the question to be de
termined. In order to. make the coal
combine amenable to the law it is neces
sary to show that there is restraint of
trade or commerce and as the situation
at present It Is somewhat doubtful
this could be demonstrated. The
users of anthracite coal have been put
to more or less Inconvenience and must
pay an Increased price for their coal.
but can It be successfully contended
that these conditions constitute restraint
of trade? It Is manifestly not so simple
matter as at first glance , It may ap
pear to be. The existence of a com
bination Js unmistakable. It Is not ob
vious that Its operation Is In restraint of
trade or commerce among the several
states, though such a condition may
come If the supply of anthracite coal
becomes exhausted, compelling the
stoppage of Industries requiring that
fuel.
President Roosevelt can be depended
upon to probe this matter thoroughly
and to have proceedings Instituted
against the coal combine If It shall be
the opinion of the legal advisers of the
president that the anti-trust law la being
violated. ' . .
wflicH is wmcni
In his speech of acceptance before the
populist state convention, the fusion
nominee for governor, endeavoring to
explain tbat although a democrat he
was In hearty accord with the populist
declaration of principles, declared that
to put the populist and democratic plat
forms side by side no one could tell
which was which, unless it had the let
ters written across the top.
More careful observation of the two
platforms emphasizes the correctness of
this assertion and enforces the neces
sity of keeping them properly labeled In
order that they may not become irre
trievably mixed. The candidates on the
fusion' ticket therefore, will have no
trouble in straddling both platforms, be
cause, aside from minor details and
matters of verbiage, they are to all In
tents and aarposes Identical.
Whether this will lead the populists
to v imagine that the democrats have
come over to them and succumbed to
the Irresistible logic of populist argu
ment or whether it will convince the
democrats that the populists are reced
ing from their original tenets and em
bracing the slmon pure faith of the
founders of democracy, remains to be
seen.
The average democrat will insist that
the democrats are swallowing the pop
ulists, .while the most enthusiastic fusion
populists will claim that association
under the fusion compact has grafted
popullstlc ldeaa upon the ' democratic
tree until all that la left Is the root
bidden beneath the surface.
An exact determination by qualitative
and quantitative analysis of the relative
strength of the populist and democratic
Ingredients in the fusion mixture will
demand the' services of the most tal
ented expert
. i . I,. '
President Burt of the Union Faclflc
labors under the delusion that the
Dress Is the natural enemy of the
railroads and that Its editors are con
stantly conspiring to misrepresent and
misquote the railroad managers. Aa a
matter of fact the press has no disposi
tion to war on the railroads or do in
justice to any railroad manager who is
willing to take the public into his con
fidence through the medium of the press,
If Mr. Burt or any other railroad man
wants to be quoted exactly he is at
liberty to dictate bis statements to a
stenographer and furnish the press with
copies. The trouble with railroad man
agers is that they frequently give out
contradictory reports and try to mystify
the public when candor would serve the
purpose better, and when they make a
break blame the reporter or Imagine
that the editor purposely perverts their
language to place them in a false attl
tude. The mere fact that the prss
prints information derived from sources
outside of headquarters indicates no
hostility or malice. It ia the business
of everr srood newspaper to get all the
news wherever It can be gotten. Neces
sarily, all sources of Information are
not equally or absolutely reliable not
even those in headquarters, for that
matter. .
Before the Lincoln city council the
county surveyor testified that the tangi
ble railroad property represented in the
figures certified by the State Board pf
Equalization for the municipal assess
ment represents 832.53 acres of rlght-of
way land, worth hot less than $1,000 an
acre; 64.01 miles of track, worth $764,'
786, and improvements on the right-of-
way in the shape of passenger and
freight depots, etc., worth $180,650,
making a total of $1,277,068. All this
property, however, as returned by the
state board for taxation by the city of
Lincoln is assessed for only $08,314, or
less than 8 per cent of the lowest estl
mate, and this without any allowance
whatever for franchise values. And
the railroad tax bureau Is trying to
make people believe that the railroads
are bearing their full share of the tax
burdens.
One of the nominees on the state
ticket put up by the Kansas fuslonists
Insists that be Is a republican, that his
nomination was without his knowledge
or consent and that be will not run.
His refusal to run as a fusion candidate
Is proof sufficient that he is a repub
lican.
China Is locking horns again with the
European powers over the exchange on
the payment of the current Indemnity
installment China will discover that
the powers' ara relentless, more par
ticularly when, aa now, they have the
whip hand over a helpless debtor.
The bulletins Issued from the king's
bedside by his attending physicians are
to be commended to medical men who
may have distinguished patients In
whose condition the public has a rightful
cencem. While they do not go Into the
detail that characterized the physicians'
bulletins during President McKtnley's
Illness, they have the merit of frankness
that Inspires confidence In their truth
ful reflection of the patient's actual
condition and the progress he Is making
from day to day. In cases of this kind
the medical attendants must realize that
nothing Is to be gained by misrepre
sentation.
Will the Snail Boy RefralaT
Chicago Tribune.
And It Is the popular belief, strengthened
by years of obseryation, that the prolonged
firing of explosives tcads to produce rain.
Tia aa 111 wlsa," Ete.
Atlanta Journal.
King Edward's Illness Is proving- a bless
ing In disguise fb at least one respect it Is
getting a lot of Englishmen Into the
churches and onto their knees.
Around the World ky Rail.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
It seems almost Incredible that the short
est mall route from western Europe to the
Pacific is by way of Siberia. Yet. with the
Transslberlan railroad almost completed,
Russia Is securing mail contracts from na
tions which less than thirty years ago were
leagued against It
Beyoad
Reach of Vcaoai'i Shaft.
. New Tor Tribune.
Mr. Cleveland's Dlacld nlovment nf Mia
fishing la Buxxard's bay is cot likely to be
seriously disturbed by an verbal brickbats
from Nebraska. The raage Is too long for
one thing, and even at a moderate distance
political missiles of the Bryaa make-up
are not destructive.
Preserrlnar "gpaalsa Heasr," .
New York World.
Admiral Dewey's latest version of the
capture of the city of Manila Is not exactly
heroic. Hli statement that he "had to lire
and kill a few people" because the Spanish
governor was not willing to surrender until
"his honor" had been thus satisfied Is a
revelation that will not Increase the gen
eral respect for "the amenities of war."
Killing "a few people" aa a matter of eti
quette between commanders seems s
shocking thing to the undisciplined civilian
mind.
Why Savas-e and Stnefer Withdrew.
Hastings Tribune. ..
There la no denying the fact that Ed
ward Rosewater was the power behind the
throne that caused Mr. Stuefer and Mr.
Savage to come out and announce that they
were not candidates for renomlnatlon upon
the republican state ticket. And be It said
to the credit of Mr. Rosewater that he had
no selfish desire In so doing. What he
did was for the best Interests of the re
publican party. It has brought harmony
and unanimity to the republican party of
Nebraska and has been the means of put
ting up a ticket without a flaw la it There
Is only one thing left to be done now and
that Is for the republicans to see to It that
the entire republican ticket Is elected by
such an overwhelming majority that It will
succeed In driving fustontsm out of the
state. v
. Cle-velandUm and Desnoeraey.
Boston Transcript
A .congressman needs to ba verr cartful
in quoting a sentiment expressed by an-
otner congressman to use the exact words
of the latter. Otherwise he Is liable to be
called down. Thus" Congressman Landls of
Indiana the other ''day In the house said
that his distinguished friend. Mr. Clark of
Missouri, had said that "Qrover Cleveland
was the a-reateet'' calamity ' that bail tn
visited on this country sine the days of
Adam." Mr. Clark Immediately corrected
Mr. Landls In these words:
'Mr. Chairman. I wish the rniMnmui
from Indiana would ouote me corractlv.
because I do not want to be put In the
attitude of saying something I did not say.
wna; i am say was that the second elec
tion7 of Grover Cleveland was the greatest
calamity that has happened to the human
race since the fall of Adam."
This Is "worse and more of It. and th
moral of the Incident Is tbat there are a
great many democrats who are harder to
"harmonize" now than they were before
the Tllden club dinner.
DEGENERATES FIRECRACKERS.
Plea for the Retara of a Oaee Worthy
Foarth of Jaly Feat are.
Saturday Evening Post.
Something ought to be done to" rehabili
tate the Fourth of July celebration, esne.
daily its firecracker department The
celebration of the present day Is but a
pale reflection and a far-off echo of the
glorious triumph of the past, and the
sickly." petulent pop of the contemporary
firecracker bears but sorry comparison
with the detonation of Its predecessor of a
few years aback. It Is sad to see a na
tional Institution thus going to the don
but tho dogs need not worry It no longer
frightens them, as In times past It did.
The old celebration used to come In at
one minute past midnight with a terrific
discharge of the village brass cannon. This
formidable piece of ordnance, loaded with
quantities of the loudest powder Wedged
down with wet grass, was then kept In
action by enthusiastic yeomen till sunrise;
and throughout the day there were desul
tory bangs, unless. Indeed, the thing blew
up at about o'clock, as It too frequently
did, with a great scattering around of the
said unfortunate yeomen. Then, during
the day, there was the program; races of
all kinds, especially trotting races by local
nags, some of which would not Infre
quently cover the mils In less thsn three
minutes, and running races In which quan
tities of dust were kicked up. There were
divers other conteats and patriotic songs
rendered by the glee club with much sound
and fury, vith the reading of the Declara
tion of Independence by the school master
in a penetrating voice; and, aa the cap
sheaf of the whole more Important even
than the cannon Itself the oration by the
candidate for congress. In which, with the
corner of one eye on the votes of the
local cltlsens from a certain green isle, ths
tall of the Brltlah Hon was given a few
pretty little tiny ktck-shaw kinks ths
whole Interspersed, punctuated and made
alive Coy the resounding explosions of
bushels of firecrackers.
But now this sort of celebration is be
coming rare and the firecracker is degen
erate. What Is meant la the small, ordi
nary cracker. When It consents to go off
at all It Is with an Insignificant little
slxxllng, asthmatic tentative, apologetlo
pop which la about as spirit stirring as the
report of a root-beer cork. Why la this?
Haa a trust got bold of the cracker Indus
try? Or does H need a trust to put "life
and mettle" Into, It? Or la the Mongolian
played out. and has he - lost his cracksr
cunning? Perhaps all firecrackers are now
made in Connecticut. If so they must be
manufactured tn old wooden nutmeg fac
tories. These latter day Inaudible firecrackers
are frauds, cheating ths small boy out of
his hard-saved dime. And as to the tall
of the Hon, what Is It for? It is an orna
mental rather than an essential appendage,
and a gentle Utile twist, with a bit of a
knot or two just for remembrance lest he
forget can do no harm, and Is sure to
awakes enthusiasm on the rear benches.
Give us back our old celebration I and la
the matter of the firecrackers there should
be legtslatton; the makers must be com
polled by law to use better powder and
store of It .
BITS OP WASHINGTON LIFE.
Mlaor eaes aad lacldeaa Sketched
at the National Capitol.
Half a dotea strapping big Texan s called
on the president a few days ago and ten
dered the chief executive a cordial Invita
tion to visit the Lone Star state. After
leaving the White House they went to the
senate chamber to hear Senator Bailey s
fiery speech against certain provisions of
the Choctaw treaty bill. One of the ma
jors wore blue yarn stockings, and he
created much excitement in the press gal
lery by placing one of bis legs over the
seat In front of him and exhibiting a large
expanse of the home-knit hosiery. The
doorkeeper of the gkllery persuaded him
to draw In hie leg without provoking any
display of firearms.
Some school children were being shown
through the capltol ths other day and vis
ited, among other places, the vice presi
dent's room. Mr. White, the handsome
clerk of Senator Frye, undertook to play
guide for the youngsters, says the Wash
ington Post
"Here." said he, "Is the bust of George
Washington, the first president of the
United States. He Is dead, now, you
know. And here Is the bust of Jefferson.
He's dead, too. And this Is Henry Wil
son, one of the vice presidents. He died
In this room."
A little girl looked VP at Mr. White
with wide-open, wondering etes. "Did be
bust too?" she asked.
Senator Beverldge was a book agent dur
ing his college days and he never tires of
telling how - he made It. possible for his
parents to wear gold-rimmed spectacles
and the younger children -to 'go to school
because of his saocMa In forcing the peo
ple of Indiana to buy his book.
"It was a religious work," said the sen
ator a few days ago to a number of his
colleagues in the restaurant, "and It was
called 'Error's Chain.' I believe its ob
ject was to show that all religions except
the Christian religion have fallen when as
saulted. I was so successful In placing
'Error's Chain' on the parlor tables of In
diana during my first season as a book
agent that the publishers desired to avail
themselves of my services during the next
vacation. I was mads a state agent and
I selected Iowa as the best field of opera
tion. Then I chose about fifty of the stu
dents at Greencastle as canvassers and we
went to Iowa In a private car. I estab
lished headquarters In Des Moines and
when school opened up that fall I do not
believe there was a family In ths entire
state of Iowa that had not been given an
opportunity to secure a copy of 'Error's
Chain.' "
When Mr. Beveridge got this far In his
story Senator Allison Interrupted him and
In his fatherly way asked: "Beveridge, are
you the person who Is responsible for the
circulation of 'Error's Chain' in Iowa?"
"I guess I will have to plead rillty,"
answered the Indiana man.
"Then just step out In the hall where we
won't break any dishes. My wife has been
holding up that book in my face for the
last twenty years and I have always vowed
I would get even with the man who sold
It to her."
Representative Olmsted of Pennsylvania
Is making a bid for entry Into the class
of humorists in the house. In his speech
upon the Philippines bill he said that the
minority report demonstrated the poverty
of the democracy in the matter of issues,
saya the Washington Times. A short
time ago, he said, they thought they had
one. The democratlo leader,-Mr. Richard
son, had joyously launched, the charge that
a certain man named Chrirtmaabad ob
tained or was trying to obtain from the
Danish government $S00,000 or so to
buy up somebody or something in the
United States. From the note of exulta
tion in his voice and the gleam of hope
In his eye, Mr. Olmsted said. It was appar
ent that the Tennesseean felt tbat the
democratic party had at last found an
issue that it had, so to speak, "struck oil."
"The utter collapse of his charges," con
tinued Mr. Olmsted, "reminds me of a
client of mjne, the necessities of whose
large family, recently augumented by the
arrival of twins, placed him In financial
straits. He came to me one day, joyfully
declaring that he had found oil flowing
from a spring upon his land. The bottle
containing the sample which he brought
had evidently seen family use, but I for
warded It to an expert whose reply dashed
to earth my hopes and those of my client.
"He simply said: 'Find no trace of oil;
think your friend has struck paregoric' "
Senator Chauncey M. Depew Is still mak
ing speeches in congress, so far aa the peo
ple of New York are concerned, although
be Is now In Europe, where he always
makes it a point to spend his summer va
cation. The senator made several speeches
during the session. When summer arrived
he began to long for bis trip across the
ocean and one day announced to his friends
that he had made all arrangements to sail.
His friends expostulated with him. They
urged that he was playing very poor poli
tics, to bs elected to the senate and then
leave for Europe just at the time that
body was taking up some of the most im
portant questions which it had to settle.
"I'll fix that all right," said ths famous
after-dinner speaker. "I will just have
my clerk send out a few thousand of my
speeches each day and the people ' will
never miss me."
True to his word, he ordered 250.000
copies of his speech on the election of sen
ators by direct vote to be printed and
each day his clerk sees that several thou
sand of them are put Into the mall.
Senator Klttredge of South Dakota has
a new story wnicn ne contributes to tne
good of the order, saya the Washington
Poat.
It seems that a robbery had beta com
mitted and the new policeman upon the
beat was being taken to taak for his ap
parent negligence.
"Dldn t you see any suspicious men tnat
night?" he was asked.
"I saw but one man, was the police
man's reply, "and I asked htm what he
was doing there at that time of night Hs
said that hs had no business tbere just
then', but that he was going to open a
jewelry store near there. So I said to
him," continued the policeman,, "that I
wished htm good luck."
"Well," said the policeman's superior,
"he did open a jewelry store, sure enough,
and h made away with a lot of gold
watches and diamonds," .
"Begorra, then, captain," replied the po
liceman, unabashed, "the man might have
been a thief, but hs certainly was no Hart"
When the republican conference of laat
Wednesday became rather prosy, reports
the .Washington Post, Senator Scott of
West Virginia proposed a program of lighter
tbinga. to be begun by a speech from Sen
ator Proctor of Vermont, as to what would
be the effect upon the maple sugar industry
were ths baleful Cuban reciprocity bill en
acted into law.
Senator Proctor blushed and stammered
something about a preference for voting
Instead of talking. Then It was that Sen
ator Hoar of Massachusetts, tn his high
treble voles, spoke up:
"My good friend from Vermont," said
Senator Hoar, "does not make speeches In
defense of the maple syrup Industry. Hs
Introduces a much more effsctlve procedure.
He sends each Senator a jug of maple
syrup, .which . appeals mors . strongly to
them thaa any speech he might make."
HENRY WATTER SON'S DEFENSE.
Explains His Hostility to Former
President Cleveland.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Mr; Watterson has but two ends In view:
To scotch a movement wholly dangerous In
character, and to vindicate the truth of
history. He has never had the slightest
private quarrel with Mr.' Cleveland. Not a
discourteous, unseemly word ever passed
between blm and Mr. Cleveland. He never
sought to foist his friends upon Mr. Cleve
land, and, making few suggestions, he was
never refused any personal request by Mr.
Cleveland. Everything that Is said, or
printed, to a contrary effect, la wholly
false, and could only be printed, or said, by
malevolent persons, having no personal
sense of accountability or honor. Mr.
Watterson Is the last man In the world to
make an individual grief the basis of a
public attack. He would despise himself it
he were capable of It Those who know
blm well know him Incapable of It His op
position1 to Mr. Cleveland rests upon the
specific statements he has made, that Mr.
Cleveland Is an Ill-tempered, self-willed
man, having neither the Intellectual train
ing nor the moral and political Inspiration
for democratic fellowship or leadership;
that he knows little, and cares less? about
tariff reform; that such svmpathlee as ha
has are not on the side of the plain, com
mon people, and still less with the lowly
and poor, but on the side of the strong, the
mighty and the great; that be Is personally
an lngrate and a glutton; that because of
his selfishness and his bruttlahness, he
alienated every democrat of consequence In
congress who would not serve blm blindly;
that In short he found the party a noble
unit and left It a wreck. Where he Is best
known he Is most detested.
Seeing these things, sometimes at long
range and sometimes at short range, Mr.
Watterson stood aghast and appalled. The
Edgar Apgar tragedy; the Manning tragedy;
the shameless turning down of friends; the
assiduous cultivation of enemies; the re
volting self-assertion sometimes of exclu
sive virtue and sometimes of exclusive cour
age; In a word, the perpetual wearing of
the self-made halo, the great, noble, con
fiding democratic party going to destruction
the while, first affrighted and then disgusted
him.' And, finally, as nobody seemed to be
willing to speak out, he did; he did It tn
1892, and he is doing it now, and never did
man apeak more unselfishly or In greater
disregard to any and all consequences to
himself.
Mr. Cleveland derives a great advantage
from the dignity which doth hedge an ex
president We should be disloyal to 4 trust
If we respected this. His proposed activity
now bodes no good to anybody except him
self and at best but ministers to his quench
less lust for the flesh-pots of place and
power. The republicans may have him an'
they want him. The democrats will none
of him. They know that when he comes
In at the door harmony files out of the
window. Hence, with democracy, the word
should be this:
I know, thee not old 'man; fall to thy
prayers ;
Make less thy body hence and more thy
grace; .
Know the grave doth gape
For thee thrice wider than for other rr.cn?
PERSONAL NOTES.
Senor OJeda, who Is to be the new Spanish
minister to the United States, Is said to be
a man of splendid character, among his
numerous accomplishments being his ability
to speak the English language perfectly.
When Lord Kitchener arrives In London
on July 11. from South Africa, he will be
tendered a publio reception. If the king's
health continues satisfactory. .' The com-
mandefrlo-chlef, '. Earl Roberts,' will meet
him at :8outhamoton.
At least two street railroad companies in
Chicago give delay checks or' refund fares
to passengers In case tf breakdown or long
delays. An officer of one ef the roads said
that 'they had found that the practice made
frlesMs for the eompsnr. ' '
Governor Smith of ML yland has appointed
a commission of three to purchase a bust of
Rear Admiral Win field Scott Schley to be
placed In the new. state capltol at Annapolis,
in accordance with an act passed by the
state legislature at Its last session.
Chicago derives a neat bunch of money
annually for rentof ground beneath aide-
for business costs 1 a . square ' foot, and
for coal 10 cents. Outside the business
district the annual rental la $5 for each
twenty-five-foot lot front.
David McMahon, a wealthy contractor of
Philadelphia, has sailed for Ireland, his In
tention being, it ia said, to buy a hlatorlo
castle near Limerick, which he will turn
Into a summer residence, or perhaps a
permanent abode. Mr. McMahon In times
past has purchased large pieces of real
estate tn Ireland. ' i
Governor John Walter Smith of Maryland
has Issued a proclamation declaring Satur
day next, July 6, a publio holiday in that
state. The day is by custom a half holiday
in Baltimore and the larger towns and finan
cial and mercantile Institutions petitioned
the governor to make It wholly a legal
holiday throughout the state. -
Theophllus H. Porter, for forty-six years
a newspaper carrier in Lynn, Mass., retired
from business last week, having made enough
money to keep blm comfortably for the rest
of his life. In all tbat time he has walked
about fifteen miles every, day but Sunday,
when he went to church regularly, as he
does not believe In Sunday papers.
R. J. Seddon, who Is premier of New Zea
land, Is a mechanical engineer by. profes
sion. He emigrated from England as a
gold seeker in 1867. Besides being premier
be is a general utility man. as he holds
the posts of colonial treasurer, minister
of labor, minister, of defense and commis
sioner of trad and customs for the colony.
Don't Forget
that Friday Is July the fourth. The
day -we celebrate.
Our store will be closed ALL DAY
and there may be some articles of
dress you will want extra tor that
day either at home at the lakes or
some of the parks. No mattor what
your vocation that day you will want
to be properly dressed for the oc
casion. We've the very thing you
want to do It with.
No Clothing Fits Like Ours, .
and the goodness of same is equally tme of our Furnishings and" Bats. ' '
Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers.
U. & Wilcox, Mattngef.
OLD MARRIAGE LAWN.
Effective Means of Preventing Claa
deailae t'nlann.
Tortland Oregonlan.
A hundred years ago there was a statute
In full force In a number of the original
New England colonies making a wide de
gree of publicity prerequisite to marriage.
The first section of the Rhode Island law,
whtch did not differ greatly from that In
some other eolonles, required specific pub
lication of marriage Intentions. It made to
a rlvtl officer. It was his duty to post a
written notice thereof In some public place
In the town "wherein the parties respec
tively dwell;" If to the mlnleter, the bans
were to be published In church tor three
copsecutfve Sundays., This latter provi
sion was a survival of a good eld
English custom, and might be revived
with profit, since Its tendency Is to
place marriage upon . a responsible,
dignified basis, and recognise . the in
terest of society therein. . Another point of
some Importance in this old law was the
provision whtch required those who alleged
some Impediment to the proposed marriage
to furnish their reason In writing to the
officers, and to give sureties to make the
objection good, thus guarding against merely
mallcloua prosecution. The whole intent
of the law was to make marriage a respon
sible, solemn and binding engagement.
Of course, a marriage made la the moet
publio manner may, and In point of fact
often does, turn out unhappily. TfiVre can
be no legal guarantee against diversity of
temperament or . opinion, or against the
social and Individual sina that wreck homes
and fill charitable institutions with worse
than orphaned children. But It can scarcely
be doubted that a law which prevents clan
destine marriages effectively, as this . old
statute must have done disposes of some of
the most conspicuous causes of divorces.
This being conceded, it is worth while, in
the very general discussion of the divorce
question, to consider whether or not an act
based upon the old law would he an ad
vantage In these times. Mediums through
which matters of interest are conveyed to
the publio are different from those of a
century ago; hence publication of Intentions
In the newspapers, as other legal notices
are served, three weeks in advance of the
date set for the marriage ceremony, might
well take the place of posting publio notices
or crying bans from the pulpit. Society,
having largely to bear the consequences Of
hasty, ill-assorted, Inconsiderate marriages,
may well rise up In dental of the pompous
individual assertion of the'present day that
marriages concerns nobody except those who
enter into it "It Is our own business,"
say the bumptious youth and pert miss who
enter clandestinely or defiantly Into mar
riage. And though the foolish and Impu
dent assumption Is disproved . In a few
years, when the young woman returns with
her children to her father's home to be
cared for, or, falling in this retreat, seeks
the managers of baby homes or children's
aid societies with a babe in her arms and
another clinging to her skirts, asking that
they take her children In, as "he has de
serted her and she and her babes are home
leas," the proof comes too late to protect
parents or society from the results of ill
advised, irresponsible marriage. In . the
face of thla literally "crying evil", legis
lators would do well to consider seriously
an amendment to our marriage law provid
ing that the intentions of persons entering
matrimony be duly declared to the public
with a challenge to anyone to present good
and sufficient reasons, properly avouched,
why the marriage may not or cannot law
fully take place
LAUGHING MATTER,
Philadelphia Press: "Pa." said the Uttle
tnosqultto, ''what does) perseveranoe mean,
anyway?"
'Perseverance, my child," replied the
wise old Insect, "means finding a hole in
a wire screen."
New York Sun: Knlcker Those bathing
girls must be afraid of the police.
Rocker How so?
Knlcker They hate to be caught with the
goods on.
Washington Star: "Is that man still a
leader of his party?" .,
"Well," answered Senator Sorghum, "he's
doing his best to make peopls think he In,
but as a matter of fact he is simply hust
ling to keep his party from running over
him."
BomervlHe Journal: "She Do you believe
In co-education?
He Well, yes If all the boys and girls
belong to the same family.
Chicago Tribune: "It seems to me," ob
jected the shaggy-haired member of the
committee on resolutions, "there ain't no
need of luRgin' in tha names of Jefferson
and Jaclmon."
"Darn it!" exclaimed the chairman,
"we've got to have something democratlo
in a democratlo platform, haven't we?"
Boston Post: "Why do you spit on your
bait? asked the city angler sarcastically of
the boy-with the bent pole and knotted
line.
"Huh!" replied the urchin. "That s a fool
question. I've ketched four fish, since you
got here an' you hain't had a bite."
Cleveland Plain Dealer: "They say the
new king of Saxony Is a great musician."
"Maybe so. A good many yams come
from Saxony." . .
ADJOURNMENT OP CONGRESS.
Washington- Star.
Bark to the farm and the village.
Where the field and the sidewalks blendl
Hark to the state
Where tho fences watt
For some one to come and mend!
They are coming like bees from the honey.
For each with undaunted will
Has dona what he could ' '
To come out to the good
On the 'propriaUon bill. (-
And It isn't bis splendid speech '
, That will bring him to town again.
For tho mighty plan
For the good of man
He evolved from his massive brain,
So much aa his bland persletence
.And hi most superior skill ,
. In getting a share
Of the good things there
In tho pronriatlon but ,